Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a football fan, now is quarterbacking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team as it navigates particularly turbulent global waters, notably in Venezuela.

President Trump has tasked Secretary of State Marco Rubio with leading Venezuela's post-Maduro transition. This significant responsibility has sparked widespread online humor. Memes and jokes depict Rubio taking on an ever-expanding list of roles,

While Vice President JD Vance took a back seat amid the operation in Venezuela, Rubio's odds of being the next president surged.

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NBC’s Kristen Welker challenged Secretary of State Marco Rubio over President Donald Trump launching a strike against Venezuela and capturing its president Nicolás Maduro without the approval of congress. The move sparked backlash from Democratic lawmakers who argued the action was “illegal.”

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News organizations got a rare “thank you” from the Trump administration for not putting its military action in Venezuela in jeopardy by reporting on it before it happened.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio couldn’t provide a single legal rationale for President Donald Trump’s plan to put himself in charge of Venezuela. Rubio flailed Sunday during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, when host George Stephanopoulos asked him under what legal authority Trump intended to “run” Venezuela.

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Rubio was already softening the president’s pronouncements that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for an unspecified period of time. “It’s not running -- it’s running policy, the policy with regards to this,